01-01-2024
31-12-2024
The project starts with the observation that in the short period that the 1st Republic lasted (1910-1926), a surprising number of intellectuals from various fields were interested and produced prolifically in children's and youth literature. The ideology of the First Republic attributed a significant role to education as a promoter of the development of citizenship values. In this context, the present project aims to analyze to what extent children's literature of the First Republic, produced by Portuguese authors, was articulated with that idea. With this purpose, we will identify those works' situations, actions, characters, and contexts that align with the Republican ideology. The project will identify, collect, and analyze children's and youth literature produced during the 1st Republic. This analysis will later allow the conception of training strategies and materials to disseminate the results in educational and cultural communities. This work is markedly multi and interdisciplinary, calling for contributions from literary analysis, history to sociology of education, seeking to rescue a cultural heritage articulated with EU's current concern (policy of memory and for the tangible and intangible heritage in its potential to confront populism and authoritarian drifts that crosses the European space, spilling over into the educational field).
Projeto apoiado através do Financiamento Plurianual do CIIE (Financiamento Base, com a ref.ª UIDB/00167/2020), atribuído pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, IP. (no quadro da 2ª edição do concurso interno de apoio a projetos de investigação 2020-2023 do CIIE) (Grant no. 167/2020_conc2_02)
Children's literature
1st Republic
Citizenship
Educational policies